Aegina: Contexts for Choral Lyric Poetry
Myth, History, and Identity in the Fifth Century BC
Edited by David Fearn
Table of Contents
Introduction: Aegina in Contexts, David Fearn
I. Contexts for Heroic Myth-Making: Ethnicity, Interstate Relations, Cult, and Commerce
1. Asopos and his Multiple Daughters: Traces of Preclassical Epic in the Aeginetan Odes of Pindar, Gregory Nagy
2. Rethinking the Sanctuary of Aphaia, James Watson
3. 'The Thearion of the Pythian One': The Aeginetan Thearoi in Context, Ian Rutherford
4. Musical Merchandise 'on every vessel': Religion and Trade on Aegina, Barbara Kowalzig
II. Poetry, Performance, Politics
5. Aeginetan Epinician Culture: Naming, Ritual, and Politics, David Fearn
6. Aeginetan Odes, Reperformance, and Intertextuality, Andrew Morrison
III. Interfaces between Poetry, Myth, and Art
7. Giving Wings to the Aeginetan Sculptures: The Panhellenic Aspirations of Pindar's Eighth Olympian, Lucia Athanassaki
8. Thebes, Aegina, and the Temple of Aphaia: A Reading of Pindar's Isthmian 6, Henrik Indergaard
9. The Trojan War, Theoxenia, and Aegina in Pindar's Paean 6 and the Aphaia Sculptures, Guy Hedreen
IV. The Historiographical Aftermath
10. Herodotus on Aeginetan Identity, Elizabeth Irwin
11. 'Lest the things done by men become exitela': Writing up Aegina in a Late Fifth-Century Context, Elizabeth Irwin